Index of Subjects
Abimelech
51
Abram and Sarai
166
Achan
113
Achan and Rahab
103, 116
ambiguity
3n7, 11, 13, 15n46, 19, 63, 64n80, 69, 77, 80, 83, 95, 101, 104, 147, 170, 185, 187, 189, 195, 202–203, 219, 222, 227, 235n27, 238n33, 240, 246
anonymity
17, 19, 47n16, 55, 57–58, 69, 94, 122, 128
anonymous characters throughout Judges 19–21
57
answerability
4, 6, 12, 21, 23n21, 22, 27n39, 123, 143, 154n19, 157, 227n13, 250
Aqedah (Genesis 22)
56, 62, 63
Bakhtin
1, 12n41, 13, 15n46, 16–25, 27, 29n47, 30–32, 34, 37, 41, 43, 45, 50n31, 51, 54, 58–61, 69n1, 70, 73n13, 74, 78–79, 82, 84n39, 87, 102, 104n5, 105, 107, 109n20, 111, 124–126, 130n12, 131, 136, 138, 142–145, 150, 154, 159n32, 170–171, 179, 180n31, 183, 196n2, 200n7, 207, 208n29, 213, 214n42, 216–217, 221–222, 226–227, 238, 239n34, 240, 241n36, 242, 249–256, 258
ban (םרח )
2, 17, 103, 243, 246
Benjamin
18, 40, 43, 56, 58, 64, 76, 79, 84, 85n42, 88–91, 95, 97–100, 104, 106, 109, 120–123, 132n25, 223–224, 227, 233, 235, 237, 240, 244
canon
1–2, 4–11, 13–14, 16–21, 23, 25–26, 28, 30–35, 37–38, 40–43, 46, 50, 68–69, 71, 74n14, 75, 77, 78n25, 86, 88, 93, 101, 103–104, 124–129, 131, 133–135, 137, 139, 141–142, 145, 149–151, 155, 167–170, 180, 183, 185–186, 193, 195, 213, 215–219, 221–222, 226, 232, 237, 239–240, 242
canon consciousness
4, 8–9, 33, 104, 217
canonical answerability
2, 4, 12, 17, 38, 41–43, 73, 75, 80, 83, 86, 91, 101, 124, 131, 134, 142, 164, 169, 175, 191, 196, 205–206, 215, 222, 234, 241, 243, 246
chronotope
17, 23, 30–31, 45, 49, 54, 58–59, 61, 93, 127–128, 130, 134, 143, 149–150, 154–157, 160, 170–171, 180, 182–184, 186–188, 194, 196–197, 206, 213, 214n42, 221–222, 235–236, 246
chronotope of encounters
field
169
threshing floor
182
Dialogue of Identity
174
city gate
196
clothing
ףנכ (“wings”)
188
sandal
204
concubine/second wife (שגליפ )
44
daughters of Lot
179
dialogic לשמ
2, 52–53, 55, 58, 61, 65, 68–70, 73, 77, 104, 124, 136, 141, 149, 151, 186, 201, 209, 214, 216, 219, 226, 229, 239
dialogism
5, 15n46, 19, 21n9, 51n33, 35, 154n15, 180, 196, 251n11, 12, 13, 14, 252n16, 254n24
double request
147, 169, 186, 193, 218, 241
double-voiced
15n46, 17, 21, 23–25, 48n24, 68–71, 74, 125, 161, 175, 178, 203, 207, 209
doorway (חתפ )
227
Esther
167
famine
157, 166, 223
Genesis 19
81, 153n14, 157, 166, 169–170, 179–181, 184, 188, 191, 193, 207, 229
genre
2, 4n12, 5n13, 30n50, 44, 46, 49, 50n31, 59n65, 102n2, 131n14, 136n37, 38, 137–138, 140, 224, 252
grotesque realism
17, 41, 102–103, 107–108, 119–121, 123–124, 126, 221, 237–238, 241
Hagar
3n7, 29n48, 166, 191–192, 218
heteroglossia
4, 5n13, 23–24, 154, 222
inheritance (הלחנ )
195, 242n38, 243–244, 246
intertextuality
5
Joshua 6 and 7
110–111
Jotham’s Parable
55
Jotham’s Fable
55
Jotham’s לשמ
55
Judah
145
kinsman-redeemer
184, 189, 196, 202
Leah
129, 179, 181–182, 206, 208
levirate marriage
184, 186, 191, 199, 201–205, 241
lion imagery
125
literary gap
101
loophole
70, 77, 82, 110–111, 116, 119, 186, 200, 203, 207–208, 255
Lot
129, 153n14, 157, 166–167, 179, 181, 184, 191, 193, 207
Lot’s daughters
129, 157, 181, 184, 191
loving-kindness/covenant faithfulness/loyal love (דסח )
2, 17, 41, 145, 160, 173, 181, 193, 195, 198–199, 205–206, 210–211, 216, 220, 222, 233, 240–241, 243–244, 246
Midnight Motif
170n2, 186
Moabite
171
mother’s house
145, 160–161
Naomi
129, 139, 145–147, 149–158, 160–169, 171–173, 176–177, 179, 181, 183–184, 186–191, 193–206, 208–212, 216, 218, 220, 223–224, 229–231, 233, 236, 239–241
Naomi’s Lament
164
negative space
1
oath
24, 39, 44, 57, 67n87, 70, 74, 86n46, 95–96, 98–101, 120, 150, 162–164, 167–168, 170, 178, 181, 206, 209, 212, 218, 224, 230, 235–237, 239
offspring/seed (זרע )
130
Orpah
148–149, 152, 156, 159n30, 160–162, 202n16, 208, 229
pattern of foreign women
191–192
polyphony
4, 7
positive space
11
progenitive problems
120
Rachel
129, 179, 181–182, 192, 206, 208
Rahab
86n47, 88, 108, 110–112, 116, 118, 123, 135, 191, 193, 210–211, 218, 242
recognition and non-recognition
145
relational answerability
149, 154, 157, 170
reversal שגליפ
17, 41, 234, 240–241
secretly, stealthily (טל )
185
seize (ףטח )
124–125
Shaddai
164–165, 167
silence
11
speak to the heart
178
Tamar
6n17, 17, 88, 109, 128–129, 135, 139, 143–149, 166, 179, 181–182, 191–193, 198, 201–202, 206, 208, 213, 216–218, 241–242
the knife (תלכאמה )
62
threshing floor
170
threshold (ןתפמ )
31, 42–43, 48, 61, 64–65, 68
threshold (ףס )
16, 82, 189, 227, 235, 246
to cut (חתנ )
16, 38, 40–43, 69, 221
unfinalizability
124
unity at Mizpah
84
utterance
1, 4–5, 16–18, 21, 24–31, 34, 38, 40–41, 43, 46, 49, 59, 70, 72n11, 80, 88–89, 103, 110, 119, 122, 126, 151, 153–155, 161, 163–165, 167, 169–171, 178, 193, 200, 207, 209, 220–222, 225, 232, 236, 240–241
intertextual utterances
16
silent utterances
199
voice of answerability
6
weeping
17, 23, 69–70, 74, 90, 95–102, 118, 126, 224
wife of the dead
195, 198, 200–202, 204–206, 208, 219, 240, 244
women of Bethlehem
149, 153–154, 163, 165, 195–196, 209–210, 236, 240
word-violence
13–14, 96
Zelophehad’s daughters
190
Zipporah
129, 135, 192–193, 218